Symmetric variations of the metric and extrema of the action for pure gravity

DOI10.1023/A:1018898407507zbMath0914.53059arXivgr-qc/9608025MaRDI QIDQ1289208

Simon Davis

Publication date: 24 May 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9608025

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constant problemnonsymmetric metricfourth-order gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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